In another topic, it came to my attention that I do not know the difference between a blog and a forum. What I am attempting to do is replicate the features of a friend's homepage (http://www.welcometotheadventure.com/phpnuke/index.php .)
Isn't that a blog? What I want to be able to do is to post updates to a previous post with the original post remaining completely available. I think the homepage I mentioned would give this flexibility. It seems he adds commentary as a new addendum. Each addition is monitored as a statistically independent element of the page.

Bondings

Tony The Tiger wrote:

In another topic, it came to my attention that I do not know the difference between a blog and a forum. What I am attempting to do is replicate the features of a friend's homepage (http://www.welcometotheadventure.com/phpnuke/index.php .)
Isn't that a blog? What I want to be able to do is to post updates to a previous post with the original post remaining completely available. I think the homepage I mentioned would give this flexibility. It seems he adds commentary as a new addendum. Each addition is monitored as a statistically independent element of the page.

It's a CMS (content management system), but you can use it for a blog, if you want.

Its much a blog, managed by a CMS. Not a forum for sure, even though i found one link to his forums.

Daniel15

Basically, what you're posting in now is a forum. Anyone can start topics, and other people reply to the topics. In a blog/CMS, there is usually one main author, and they write all the content. Other people can write comments on the content.

Hopefully, that clears it up for you.

slopestyle

Just think of a Blog as your personal diary that you're letting everyone else read.